The Wilderness and Free Trade Vote was a series of polls created by Jagex in order to gauge the popularity of reverting the updates which removed the old style of player killing and instituted the trade limit. Jagex cited an increase in their ability to combat bots and account stealing as the reason behind the interest in reverting the updates. The Referendum was scheduled to finish at mid-day (GMT Time) on the 14 January 2011. The final results of the Referendum were: Mod Mark posted on the RuneScape front page that the final announcement would be on the 17 January.